St Vincent’s Education Centre
| St Vincent’s Education Centre offers a state of the art training facility for health professionals. Consisting of a conference room, clinical skills/surgical training area, breakout rooms and simulation facility, the Education Centre is unrivalled anywhere in the southern hemisphere.
For more information
Tel: (03) 9288 2351
Email: Ruth Guy
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Breast health
The National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre provides a learning module on breast health for GPs.
Heart health
The National Heart Foundation provides an online learning tool to assist GPs and Practice Nurses on helping patients implement lifestlye changes.
Kidney Health
Kidney Health Australia offers links to a range of individual online learning modules around chronic kidney disease (CKD) early detection, assessment and management. This includes individual modules or an active learning module (30 Category One, RACGP QA&CPD points) to equip GPs with the essential knowledge and skills to screen, diagnose and manage patients who are suffering from CKD.
Medicare Australia
A range of online education services are available to help health professionals understand their obligations when working with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Men's Health
An archive of online education is available to assist GPs and other health professionals with the issues and management of patients presenting with reproductive health issues.
Mental Health education
http://www.vtpu.org.au/programs/education/seminars.html
2010 Mental Health Education Series for GPs
Palliative Care
The Centre for Palliative Care at St Vincent’s has developed a University accredited graduate training program in Palliative Care through the University of Melbourne. The training is targeted at health professionals (all disciplines) who are required to provide palliative care in their work setting.
The Centre also offers the Victorian Palliative Medicine Training Program (VPMTP) which is a structured but flexible program to prepare doctors to work in this specialist field. For more information including application forms, visit the Centre for Palliative Care website www.centreforpallcare.org.
Victorian Geriatric Medicine Training Program (VGMTP)
The VGMTP offers free online education modules for staff who provide care to the older person. Topics include falls and balance, pain, legal issues, dementia, continence and delirium.
Victorian Viral Hepatitis Education
The Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator is based at St Vincent’s in the
Gastroenterology department and funded by the Department of Health to provide education relating to hepatitis B and C to health professionals across Victoria.
For more information email Frances Cieslak or telephone (03) 9288 3586/mob: 0407 865 140.
You can also download a flyer.
Hepatitis C
Access free online modules on hepatitis C. Click here for Updated Hep C Guidelines.